A County Commissioner in western Kansas has been barred from holding public office in Kansas, after his conviction for election crimes. The Kansas Attorney General says his crime was to lend a stock trailer to a constituent in return for her vote.

On July 21, Clinton Lee Kvasnicka, 38, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of disorderly election conduct and was sentenced by Judge Glenn R. Braun to 12 months probation with an underlying sentence of six months. He also was fined $1,000.

The State previously had charged Kvasnicka with election bribery, a felony, in connection with the matter, but in March a Logan County jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on that charge, resulting in a mistrial. After the mistrial, the State and the defendant resolved the case by plea agreement, which resulted in last week’s conviction and sentencing.

In evidence presented at the trial, the State accused Kvasnicka of offering to let a constituent use a stock trailer he owned in exchange for her voting for him for county commissioner. The crime occurred in August 2012.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a news release that conviction ends Kvasnicka’s government career.

“Because the conviction constituted violation of a penal statute involving a crime of moral turpitude, Kansas law requires that Kvasnicka forfeit his position as Logan County Commissioner,” according to the release, “…and as part of the plea agreement he agreed immediately to resign his seat. He also is disqualified from holding a public office or position of trust in the State of Kansas.”